FreeFileSync Forum

Hi Zenju,

FFS is a fantastic tool, I constantly recommend it. Everyday I do a sync of my datas, with an external drive. My principal worry are viruses that could delete/encrypt/damage the backup copy. It would be extremely useful if were possible protect the backup copy by FFS. Maybe a password to ...

You can disable "fail-safe copy" in global settings which will avoid creating a temporary file, thus reduce the peak space consumption during sync. However I would not recommend this in general, since "fail-safe copy" is a protection against data corruption in case of unexpected interruptions like ...

Hi Zenju, when changing the time (GMT / UTC + 1 in Italy), I am forced to synchronize the files already updated (I use the comparison type "time and size") because the files on the target drive (USB) are more older (or more newer) than the files in the source drive (a PC, a Server or a NAS with OS ...

Hi, FFS is very useful and efficient, thank you. In the case of Mirror (probably also in others), I found a problem, I do a striking example:
- I have a source folder "A" that contains some files
- I execute the Mirror to obtain a perfect copy of the source folder "A" in a USB destination drive that ...